Polymer Technology Center

Dave Bergbreiter

Professor of Chemistry

Department of Chemistry
Chemistry Building, Room 201 C
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-3255

Email: bergbreiter@mail.chem.tamu.edu
Phone: 979.845.3437
Fax: 979.845.4719

Departmental Website

EDUCATION
• B.S., Chemistry, honors, Michigan State University (1970)

• Ph.D., Organic Chemistry, M.I.T. (1974)
Advisor, Dr. G. M. Whitesides, "Functionalization of Polyethylene"

WORK EXPERIENCE
• Associate Director, Chemistry Division, Polymer Technology Consortium, 1987 - present
• Professor, 1983 - present, Texas A&M University
• Chairman, Organic Division, 1983 - 1986, 1991 - 1993
• Associate Professor, 1980 - 1983, Texas A&M University
• Assistant Professor, 1974 - 1980, Texas A&M University

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
1. "Alternative Polymer Supports for Organic Chemistry", David E. Bergbreiter, Med. Res. Rev., 1999, 19, 439-50.
2. "Thermal Sequestration of Metals from Aqueous Solutions Using Poly(N-Isopropyl-acrylamide) Copolymers", David E. Bergbreiter, Nirmal Koshti, Justine G. Franchina and Jonathon D. Frels, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2000, 39, 1039-1042.
3. "Chemical Modification of Hyperbranched Ultrathin Films on Gold and Polyethylene", David
E. Bergbreiter and Guoliang Tao, J. Polym. Sci., Polym. Chem. Ed. 2000, 38, 3944-53.
4. "Palladium-Catalyzed C-C Coupling Under Thermomorphic Conditions", Bergbreiter,
D. E.‡‚ Osburn, P. L.; Wilson, A.; Sink, E. M. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2000, 122, 9058-9064.
5. "Functionalized Hyperbranched Polyethylene Powder Supports", Bergbreiter, D. E.; Tao, G.
; Kippenberger, A. M. Org. Lett. 2000, 2, 2853-2855.
6. "Polyvalent Hydrogen-Bonding Functionalization of Ultrathin Hyperbranched Films on Polyethylene and Gold", Bergbreiter, D. E.; Tao, G.; Franchina, J. G.; Sussman, L. Macromolecules 2001, 34, 3018- 3023.
7. "Using polymers to control substrate, ligand, or catalyst solubility", Bergbreiter, D.E. J. Polym. Sci., Polym. Chem. Ed. 2001, 39, 2352.